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Microsoft launches Copilot Pro; FDA approves AI tool for skin cancer detection

Tech and AI Developments in a Glance

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Ishaan Mahajan
January 19, 2024

🌐Tech and AI Developments in a Glance

🤖 Google lays off hundreds of sales staff to go AI 

💻 Microsoft launches Copilot Pro

🩺 FDA approves AI tool for skin cancer detection

🗳️ OpenAI reveals plan to stop AI interfering with elections

🤖 Google lays off hundreds of sales staff to go AI LINK

  • Google is laying off hundreds of employees from its ad sales team, with the Large Customer Sales group being primarily affected.

  • The job cuts in Google's ad division are partly due to the adoption of AI tools that can autonomously create and manage ad assets.

  • This round of layoffs continues a trend at Google, with recent cuts in the hardware, Google Assistant, AR divisions, and other areas.

💻 Microsoft launches Copilot Pro LINK

  • Microsoft has launched Copilot Pro, a new $20 monthly subscription service that integrates AI-powered features into Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, offering priority access to the latest OpenAI models and the ability to create custom Copilot GPTs.

  • Copilot Pro is available to Microsoft 365 subscribers and includes features like generating PowerPoint slides from prompts, rephrasing and generating text in Word, and email assistance in Outlook.com.

  • The service targets power users by offering enhanced AI capabilities and faster performance, especially during peak times, and is also opening up its Copilot for Microsoft 365 offering to more businesses at $30 per user per month.

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🩺 FDA approves AI tool for skin cancer detection LINK

  • The FDA has approved DermaSensor's AI-powered handheld device designed to non-invasively detect the three common types of skin cancer.

  • The device uses an AI algorithm to analyze skin lesions and advises physicians on whether further investigation is needed.

  • DermaSensor's device has shown a 'sensitivity' of 96% across all 224 forms of skin cancer and across different skin types, and it will be sold through a subscription model priced at $199 to $399 per month.

🗳️ OpenAI reveals plan to stop AI interfering with elections LINK

  • OpenAI reveals its misinformation strategy for the 2024 elections, aiming to increase transparency and traceability of information, particularly images generated by AI.

  • The company plans to enhance its provenance classifier, collaborate with journalists, and provide ChatGPT with real-time news to support reliable information sharing.

  • OpenAI confirms policies against impersonation and content that distorts voting, while expressing intent to prohibit tools designed for political campaigning and incorporating user reporting features.